NDLEA Arrests Vietnam-bound Businessman With Cocaine At Lagos Airport

Category: Crime News

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a businessman, Molokwu Nwachukwu, who frequents China, Dubai, Pakistan, and Vietnam, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos for concealing 36 parcels of cocaine in different parts of his check-in bags, hand luggage and two pairs of slippers, while heading to Southeast Asia.

Molokwu was said to have been arrested on Wednesday, March 22, at the screening point of the MMIA Terminal 2, while he was attempting to board a flight to Vietnam.

During a search, 36 parcels of whitish powdery substance that tested positive for Cocaine with a gross weight of 1.00 kg were recovered from the handles of his bags and soles of two pairs of slippers in his luggage.

The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday.

Babafemi said, “A total of 36 parcels of whitish powdery substance that tested positive for Cocaine with a gross weight of 1.00 kilogram were recovered from the handles of his bags and soles of two pairs of slippers in his luggage.

“The suspect claimed that he travels frequently to China, Dubai, Pakistan and Vietnam, from where he imports baby wears he distributes from his Onitsha, Anambra State base.”

In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport thwarted an attempt by a suspect, Chimezie Nwafor, to export 2.10 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in 25 bars of local black soap called Dudu Osun and packaged in a carton to be exported to Brazil.

Meanwhile, follow-up operations exposed three other suspects, Ifeanyi Onu, Simon Nwuzor and Omini Peter, who were linked to the consignment and were arrested at Oyingbo Market, Yaba, Lagos.